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In many respects, the investment trust was the progenitor of the investment company in the U.S. The name is somewhat misleading, given that (according to law) an investment trust is not in fact a  trust  in the legal sense at all, but a separate legal person or a company.This matters for the fiduciary duties owed by the trustees and the equitable ownership of the fund's assets.he first investment trust was the Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust, started in 1868 to give the investor of moderate means the same advantages as the large capitalists in diminishing the risk of spreading the investment over a number of stocks.
Unit Trust Investing. Collective investments (or unit trusts) are investments in which investorsâ funds are pooled and managed by professional managers. Investing in shares has traditionally yielded unrivalled returns, offering investors the opportunity to build real wealth.he Net Asset Value (NAV) of the fund is the price at which you can buy or sell units in a CIS. This is the price that is published every day. Unlike share prices which fluctuate throughout the day, a collective investment has a fixed price for the day.